PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteWhy shouldn't I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?close quote

A San Diego student using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan, who offered herself in an online auction to raise graduate-school tuition money

 
 
open quoteIt's a dark day in Title Town.close quote

Boston resident Dan German,on the knee injury that ended the season for New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady, just minutes into his first regular-season game

 
 
open quoteThe reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.close quote

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, borrowing a line from Mark Twain to poke fun at an erroneous report of his death by Bloomberg News

 
 
open quoteI knew what I was doing was wrong.close quote

Italian businessman and Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, pleading guilty to defrauding the Vatican by using church money to maintain a lavish lifestyle

 
 
open quoteThere's a complete lack of faith, lack of confidence and lack of trust.close quote

Financial consultant Rose Grant, on market wariness toward the investment bank Lehman Brothers, whose stock plummeted 74 percent last week, leaving it on the brink of collapse

 
 
open quoteUntil … the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference … it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.close quote

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, on why vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is giving so few interviews to the press

 
 
open quotePersons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death.close quote

A National Weather Service bulletin to residents of Galveston Island, Texas, ahead of Hurricane Ike's landfall. The storm, which struck over the weekend, was expected to strengthen to at least a Category 3.

 
 
open quoteIf the human race cannot afford this, then it doesn't deserve the epithet 'human'.close quote

Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, defending the expense of both the space program and the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator activated this week to test the big-bang theory

 
 
open quoteNo external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan.close quote

Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani,in a direct rebuff to the U.S. military, which earlier this month sent commandos into sovereign tribal areas to fight terrorists

 
 

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